News report on the CNN religion blog about the buyout of Thomas Nelson by HarperCollins, who already own the Zondervan publishing imprint.
HarperCollins is owned by News Corporation, which means that Rupert Murdoch now owns the two largest US Christian publishing names and dominates the evangelical Christian publishing world.
Excerpted from the article:
Publisher HarperCollins reached an agreement Monday to buy fellow publisher Thomas Nelson, a move that will bring the two largest religion book publishers in the country under one corporation…
…HarperCollins is the parent company of Zondervan, a Bible publisher whose Christian authors include megachurch pastor Rick Warren…
…HarperCollins is a subsidiary of News Corporation, a multinational media company headed by Rupert Murdoch, the media magnate who earlier this year was plagued by hacking and phone-tapping allegations at some of his publications in the United Kingdom.
During the hacking scandal, some of Zondervan’s authors questioned how a company who owns the rights to the world’s best-selling English bible, the New International Version, could be associated with ethics violations…
Strange days indeed.
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